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Rumpot

We did a Rumpot a couple of years ago and it was fan-bloomin’ tastic. We drank the juice (it tasted a bit like alchoholic Vimto to me) and put the fruit in or on ice-cream (it was a bit strong on its own).

Basically you get a pot and fill it with Rum, fruit and sugar over the course of the summer when there is plenty of fruit about, then eat it over the winter when there isn’t.

Last time we did it we used the pot out of our slow cooker (which we never used) but we’ve passed that on to someone who wanted to use it! and we saw a proper German Rumpot pot in a local charity shop, so we’re using that.

I started ours off with some plums that were starting to go bad. I cut out the bad bits and put the rest in the pot, covered it with sugar and left it for a little while so the sugar absorbed some of the juice. I then poured in rum to cover the fruit. Job done… as we go along we’ll just add whatever fruit we have left over or if we see something cheap (when it comes into season) then we’ll get some fruit specially.